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// Wednesday, January 30, 2008

// Thursday 17 Jan

Hello!!! Im really sorry this came so late!! But heres an entry on what we did two thursdays ago!!

2 thursdays ago, we learnt about splits and diving! it was the first time some of us learnt diving and we had to do the diving exercise 2 times. The exercise was actually quite simple: One person had to chase after the ball carrier, and when the person with the ball was near the try line, she had to dive in order to avoid being touched! if the person was touched, she had to do 10 push ups! fortunately the exercise went quite well and no one was touched (i think). which is good!! (: even though the ground was quite hard which made diving rather painful...

the 2nd thing we learnt was splits! this is a new move taught, and is suitable for use near the wing. the person with the ball (A) will run up and do a positive touch, then the dummy half will pick up the ball, draw the opponents, while A wil quickly run to the side (parallel to the dummy half) then the dummy half will do a low pass to A, so that A can dive and SCORE!!!! we did this exercise for quite some time to get the hang of it!

Training ended earlier on that day, and all of us went back to hall together! (:

Carnival is in a few days time, lets all perservere!!!!!! (:

ruggin on

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// Monday, January 28, 2008

// Sunday Carnival

Hello,

for those who still dont know
our CARNIVAL IS THIS SUNDAY 3/2/08
9am - 2pm (actually we wil end earlier)
then we can have lunch.

The fixtures.

RH
SH
TH
KE
EH

okay, letssss get it overrrr and doneee withhhhhhhh.

ruggin on

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// Wednesday, January 23, 2008

rotating defence! i hope this provides a clearer picture. any questions, do clarify with us! :D
jiayou girls! just one more week!

ruggin on

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// Friday, January 11, 2008

SAT, 12 JAN 2007.

rahhh! early in the morning at 9am. we HAPPILY gathered at the lobby, ready to play friendly.
touch ruggers present were: Wendy, Qiu Tong, Yvonne, Leticia, Val, Michelle, Xiao Wei, Kimberly, Jia Ni, Xinyi, Heidi, and Tian Yu.
*clap clap* to these pple who woke up for friendly!!

against NJC and Eh
did some passes, tried some moves- loops and switches. practised our back five.

first game- NJC vs Eh. our vice-cap n co-cap ref. the game. woohooo. while we watched the game closely, learning.

NJC vs KR. defence was better here. attempted some switches here.

KR vs Eh.
stuff to take note:
- our back 5.
- DEFENCE!!
- punch-up.

lets practise harder. lets have faith that we can.
no pressure, only pleasure yeaa.
IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. =)

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

ruggin on

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// Sunday, January 6, 2008

hello hello! this post is for training on thursday, the one just before the friendly with TH! sorry for the late post, the lack of a computer is a great inconvenience :(

anyway, training on thursday was mainly about defence! we learnt how to defend on the try line and did many back-five drills. the main things to remember about defence is:
1) call out for your man
2) move up as a line
3) remember to back five and stand in a horizontal line
4)do not run backwards when backing five!
5) keep your hands outstretched
6) remember to cover for each other when our teammate moves up to touch the opponent

we still need much improvement on our back-five, because there were many times during the friendly with the guys when some of us were offside, or we backed too slowly. and sometimes we don't know how far back to go, but it has been standardised at six steps backwards.

we also revised the loops and switches that we have learnt, and then did pt to end off the training because its been a really looong time since we did pt! lets brace ourselves for more to come according to wendy! hope to see more people coming down for training this week especially since this is the last week of holidays (boohoo) and the first 16 will be chosen in this period of time! SEE YOU!

ruggin on

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// Friday, December 14, 2007

yosh! sorry for the late post.. anyway this is about our first training after the exams!!!! our lovely captain Wendy kept a secret about where we were going for our first training, so sneaky!!! but it was an easy guess.. at least for me(jiemin) haha.. yeah

first, we took the train from vivocity right to the beach station, followed by a great tram ride to the siloso beach (think so if i didnt get the name wrong) yeah.. the beach over there was.. a little disappointing cuz of the cleaning up from zouk out the previous weekend.. but nevertheless, we still continued with our training! running along the beach as a warm up, followed by a fun game of 3 V 2! and then a little talk crap session before we continue to do some lateral passing..

yups!!! then another fun part was us standing in a line along the beach, close to the water, doing some short passes to each other, and as the ball reaches the end the last person have to run all the way to the other end of the line, not forgetting to splash water along the way...

last part of the training was playing 3V2 again, narrowing 4 teams down to 2 teams.. and a final showdown between the 2 teams ended with a great finish by qiutong!

and last but not least, how can we forget to dunk our lovely captain!!! haha... hope you liked it Wendy! it was an early birthday present from all of us! =)

the team proceeded to Underwater World to clean up a little.. plus a little turtles watching lead by heidi who loves looking at them.. followed by a lunch at the hawker center at harbourfront! yaeee okay i hope i have not been too boring.. but it was really a VERY VERY FUN training that day!!!! right everybody?? hopefully more fun to come??? =P

ruggin on

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// Thursday, December 13, 2007

// 13th Dec 07

Hello!
So today was the first official training! Despite all the heavy rain throughout the week, today it was nice and sunny! Yeah, so we started with a warm up round around the field. While running, we practiced lifting our knees high and running backwards.
After which, we did the usual four corners.
We then proceeded to practice picking and dumping. We did a drill whereby one player would run to the center, dump the ball and the opposite player would run forward and pick the ball.
Wendy then briefed us on P1 AND P2. P1 is where we practice the normal three-man punch up. Whereas P2 is where the three-man punch would always hit the same man(either second left or the second right man). A maximum of three punches before the dummy half would sprint towards the gap btw the second man and the last man. The dummy half would then pass out the ball to the player to try.
After trying out P2 for awhile, we proceeded to practice the three-man punch up again.
We then played a short match between ourselves... a warm up for the friendly with the guys!
The friendly went quite well for a first time! so well done team!
Wendy also mentioned three actions which would result in a touch and go.
1. a touch pass
2. a rough foul
3. dumping the ball quite far from the point of being touch

YEP! so tts all for today!! seeya at the nxt training!

ruggin on

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